aberration
aberration 英 [ˌæbəˈreɪʃn] 美 [ˌæbəˈreʃən]
n. 失常；离开正路，越轨
名词复数:aberrations
- An aberration is something strange that rarely occurs. An example of an aberration is when the temperature hits 90 degrees in January — it's nice and warm, but it's really strange.
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- n. 失常；离开正路，越轨
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1. In that sense, the two “lost decades” of economic stagnation in Japan since 1990 may turn out not to be an aberration but a taste of things to come.
那就意味着自从1990年日本失去的二十年的经济停滞都不能够证明是失常的结果，而是即将到来的开端。
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2. On our raft we have witnessed this aberration only too well.
我们在筏子上对这些反常天气见得太多了。
- aberration (n.) 1590s, "a wandering, act of straying," from Latin aberrationem (nominative aberratio) "a wandering," noun of action from past participle stem of aberrare "to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray," literally and figuratively, from ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + errare "to wander, stray, roam, rove" (see err). Meaning "deviation from the normal type" first attested 1846.
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